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Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Jazz , Charles Hersch has written an informative and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should … as it emerged from some of the Jewish songwriters of Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville, most notably from George Gershwin. In …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy and genius. This is … one can later on find the talents [5] who develop and expand this idea among the people until [the people] finally … love, Zion and Jerusalem of the lower world, and hills and valleys and the fragrance of the fields and the vineyards, …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… of the Jewish past have moved far beyond this constricting narrative to recover Jewish culture, economics, … that Shoshana whose health had not fully recovered accompany them back to Johannesburg where the climate would be … Hebrew presses were located in this small bustling alley. [17] According to Idelsohn’s own testimony he was …